7196 tons of general cargo, explosives and a landing craft as deck cargo

History

Completed in September 1929

Notes on event

At 22.35 hours on 9 March 1943, U-405 attacked the convoy SC-121 and observed two hits from starboard on a ship which sank. The ship hit was the the Bonneville (Master Finn Tessem), which was the ship of the convoy commodore R.C. Birnie in station #81. Among the 36 dead were the master, the commodore and his staff of seven men, several of them froze to death on rafts or in lifeboats. Four of the seven survivors were picked up from a capsized lifeboat by the rescue ship Melrose Abbey and one other man was picked up from a raft by the same vessel.